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Re: Porting
- To: deepakc at zxmail dot com, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: Porting
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
> From: deepakc <deepakc@zxmail.com>
> To: "'gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org'" <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 01:40:33 -0700
> I am trying to port the compiler to a new arch.. Where could I
> find some help and resources regarding porting (other than the GCC
> manuals).
The gcc web site, it has lots of other resources. Pointers to book on
compilers and algorithms, pointers to mailing lists that have
thousands of interesting questions and answers concerning quite of few
of the subtlies of the compiler and so on...
> Preferably something which gives a deep technical insight into GCC
> data structures and working.
This isn't necessary for porting.
> A description of the source tree would also help. Any help in
> this regard would be deeply appreciated.
It was meant to be obvious. f for fortan, java for java, cp for C++,
objc for Objective C and so on. Just explore it some, it makes pretty
good sense.